Jon Hunt

Professor Hunt's teaching, research, and creative interests focus on visual thinking, reflective learning, hand drawing and mixed media, photography, typography, and graphic design. Prior to landscape architecture, he worked as a professional graphic designer and illustrator. His creative work utilizes mixed media, letterpress, relief and intaglio printmaking, encaustics, serigraphy, collagraphy, and digital means to convey perceptions and the genius loci (spirit of place). While at Kansas State University, he has crafted a scholarship agenda based on three specific aspects of student learning: (1) developing teaching tools grounded in reflective and experiential learning through writing and making, (2) advancing an analysis of student journals/sketchbooks for pedagogical research, and (3) exploring the connection between perception, cognition, and drawing. These foci are interconnected and necessary to improve visual literacy and communication in student design processes while curbing their self-imposed barriers to creativity.